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Show CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Louia Hopper, a tier nut n carpenter, suicided at Clevel md; cauae ill health. On lake Erie a schooner was capsized cap-sized and six men drowned Tburt-duy. Tburt-duy. From the 23d to the 2lJth of April there were 399 deaths from tho plague at Bagdad. The Augusta (Me.) congressional district lias elected Biaine delegates to Cincinnati, Tho General Synod oClhe Reformed Presbyterian church is in season at Philadelphia. General Hawley has been re-elected president of the Centennial com-niissiun com-niissiun by acclamation. It is (bought that the scheme for the government to acquire the Italian railways will he rejected . The democratic members of the house naval committee have refused to take testimony with open doors. The New Jersey republican delegates dele-gates are said to favor Blaine; Tennessee Tennes-see delegates prefer ilorton; Alabama, Bristow. Ono Blaine and one Bristow delegate dele-gate have been elected to Cincin- ii.ni iiiu icjjuoiiciina ui iue Lioweu (Mass.) district. ! Lord Derby in bis late note, main-i main-i tains his former position ingrefusing i to deliver Winsiow to the United i States authorities. Ex-Governor Bullock was brought back to Atlanta, Ga., ou Thursday under requisition from the governor, after au absence of five years. The news from Salonica is somewhat some-what reassuring. Tiie burial of the murdered French and Germin consuls con-suls took place on Wednesday. Tho New York Herald denounces the action of the Ohio democrats as foolish, but eaya it only slrencthens the republican parly and" not Hayes. The house committee on federal afiairs in Louisiana have auplied to tho attorney general fur immunity for the wiluesj Seclyc from prosecution. prosecu-tion. The New York l'-r!d bitterly denounces de-nounces the Oiiio democracy, "which pronounced for Allen, and Ihinka it improves Hayes' chances for the republican nomination. The removal of the remains of Jules MicheM, the noted French writer, who died in February, 1871, to the' cemetery of Pere la Cnasse, was wit-ii'sstd wit-ii'sstd by 00,000 persons. Tiie United States marsh il at New York city is to be in vest ;g Ucd, and rtlpn the district courts ol that city1 and the melho !s ol conducting clec-1 lions in cw lork under the Davenport Daven-port regime. Several persons were killed and in-juml in-juml at Shawnecfown, III., by the explosion of a steamer Injiler. Tiie cnpt:tin was killed, and other officer? were killed or disabled, as well as some of the passengers. Tuc New York Turns says that the artion of the Ohiodemocrats decs troys Timrman'a chances at St Louis, and makes the nomination of nnv man not acceptable to the infl itionists extremely improbable. Pending the discussion nl the sub-iect sub-iect of church papers in the Methodist Metho-dist confercnoo on Thursday. Dr. Curry saiil that tho church needed but two gonpral papers, ono at New York nnd tho other at somo point west. Tho New York Trihttne retran the postofliee bill as au absurdity. While inereiiKing ten per cent, a large class of service in amount it diminishes the appropriation fur the entire service ser-vice about U7 ppr cent.., and fnrhids 1 the postmaster general to dijcontinun any route. S. S. Bnrdclt has been compelled, by reason of bad health, to resign hi position ns commissioner of tho gen cral land oflico. The president has nominated John Pratt to ho secretary of tho territory of New Mexico, nnd James Hayden as collector of internal revenue for Washington territory. There is a pood deal of excitement among tho christian's in ComUnntiiio pic in rofereneo to tho threatening altitude of il io poflas, or rcligioun leadern, who control the mob in op positiou to the attempt ly tho great powers to place tho christians in the enropcan provinces on llie same footing with the Mussclmen. The ceremony of dedicating an English church ban been indefinitely postponed post-poned on account of podsiblo results. Representative Morey became excited ex-cited in tho examination ol Seelv before tho house committee on Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Witness stated that Morey told him as proof of bis influence- with tho administration, that he wan on excellent terms with Grant and that his wife was a great friend of Mrs. Belknap and often went out shopping with her. Jt was voted to expungr all allusion to thn Indies from tho record. re-cord. Tho New York Times Hays that Scely's testimony is ol tho blackmailing black-mailing character. The Libiuiuks of Eruoi'E. llov. Dr. Richard 8. Hlorrs Ice.liircd before tho Long Inland Historical society last evening, on "Tho Libraries of Europe." Wo could never hope, ho said, to poysrss any such collections of hooks nud manuscripts as those , now in tho possession o( some of tho European potentatea. for they aro unpurchaiahle and cannot ho duplicated. dupli-cated. JJr. Storrs then spoke- of the riso and progress of tho defciro for the accumulation of books, which, bo said, lollowt'd that for tho poBsefl-iion of grand cnlliedraiH, and gradually superseded it. Ilu next referred to tho destruction of Dm great libraries of Alexandria nnd the J'tolumlcs, and to tho wholesale destruction of nianiiscriplM by ouler of the Emperor Diuclcliau. Jt in now, bo Hiid, generally supposed that not a single copy ofHcripluro, or any portion of it, datta from a period anterior to bin reign. To the moults of the middle aj;es, bo thought, wn are moro indebted in-debted than wo urn generally willing to admit, not only for preserving copies of thn biblo, hutaldo lor manuscripts manu-scripts of Homer anil other wrilere. Dr. Hlorrs ulso gave an interrsting description of soma of (ha bihlii'-grnplne. bihlii'-grnplne. cnriotilii'H or monstrosities r ui tai mil in thn Vatican anil tlio j Imperial Library at Paris. Now ' Yurli Times, GtN. Sherman is about aa unfit a mini for president aa could beselecttd. In the fi-st place professional soldiers have, as a rule, proved themselves ill adapttxl for hign civil Junctions in a' republie. They arc trained for very ditlerrnt duties and are generally pure specialists. en. Sherman, moreover, is an eccentric man, and though he is honorable, yet be is past learning and very ignorant of the duties required of a prudent. He is a man ot crjtchcts, and even during tho war in which be gained his fame, he required a steadying hand or he might have rushed into disaster. He baa exhibited notio oClhnt coolness of judgment, wise statesmanship, and prudent reserve which must diatin-jguish diatin-jguish tho man lit to bo president of tho United States at this time, or indeed at any time. N. Y. Sun. |